[69104] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Redirecting mail (Re: Throttling mail)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Thu Mar 25 14:48:01 2004
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:45:20 -0500
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200403251941.i2PJfHjP003209@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Everybody who's ever been a road warrior and trapped behind a hotel or ISP that
> gratuitously snarfs up port 25 and then mangles your mail knows what I mean...
That's why network guys set up port 587 SMTP support, or ...even
worse... authenticated port-80 SMTP relays on an otherwise idle machine
in your NOC. Since its not for general consumption it doesn't need to be
easy or automatic as long as it works.
I have been to hotels that wouldn't allow SSH or telnet, and only
allowed port-80.. hence the creation of monstrous kludges on top of the
only open port.
YMMV,
Deepak Jain
AiNET
